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Spacey’s debut on FORBES Celebrity 100 (No. 74) marks the first time we’ve ever had an Internet star on the list. We estimate that Spacey earned $16 million last year mostly thanks to House of Cards.

Since the show premiered in 2013, fans have been hooked, turning it into a cultural phenomenon. In fact, on TiVoTiVo’s Spring 2014 survey of the most binge-watched shows, House of Cards was No. 2 (right after Breaking Bad). It also made history by becoming the first original Internet series to win an award at the Primetime Emmys last year, proving itself jus as good as anything else on HBO, FX, Showtime or AMC.

It’s been a good year for Spacey, who followed up his Netflix success with his self-released Now: In The Wings On A World Stage, a documentary about his work in the play Richard III. Fans will soon get another peek at his comedic side in Horrible Bosses 2. It may come as a surprise to many that at 54, the actor has never landed a spot on the FORBES list. He’s an actor who’s earned the respect of fans and Hollywood insiders thanks to roles like the crippled Verbal Kint the 1995 film The Usual Suspects for which he earned his first Oscar award. He earned a second in 1999, for playing the depressed, middle-aged suburban father in American Beauty.

No entertainment company understands this better than Netflix. The company mined the millions of bits of data it has on its customers and decided to make a $100 million investment on 26 episodes of House of Cards– a move many saw as a majorly risky. Now, streaming companies from Amazon to Xbox are jumping on the “original content” bandwagon – and anyone failing to do so will fall behind.

“I predict that in the next decade, any differentiation between two platforms will fall away. Is 13 hours watched as a cinematic whole any different than a two hour film?” Spacey asked at last year’s Edinburgh Television Festival. “The divide and the length are irrelevant.”

So while Spacey may see the content, medium and story as three parts of the same thing, he will forever go down in history as the poster boy for binge watching.

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